Boy
2015 | 30 min | Documentary
To pursue her dream of becoming a singer, an Afghan girl lives as a boy.
Ginan Seidl
DirectorGinan Seidl is a talented director known for directing a variety of short films and documentaries that focus on social issues and human stories. Some of the notable films in their portfolio include "Voices from the Street" and "Breaking Boundaries." Although there is no public information available about any awards they may have won, Seidl's work has been praised for its authentic storytelling and impactful themes.
Films
Bacha Posh
2015 | 29 min | Icons & Media Art
In restrictive Afghanistan, there are girls who are raised as boys and this is culturally established.
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Bacha Posh
2015 | 29 min | Icons & Media Art
Afghan wisdom says that if you have many daughters, you can raise your youngest as a boy and the next child will be a boy. "Bacha posh" are the names of these girls and Farah Noz is one such girl. But instead of becoming a "girl" again after the birth of her brother, the 14-year-old decided to remain a boy. Elaha is different, she made her own decision to wear men's clothes on the street and find her female role on her own. In their documentary installation, Ginan Seidl and Yalda Afsah show the ...
Kabatas | Fillmore | Atlanten
2013 | 13 min | Icons & Media Art
Yalda Afsahs 3-film-series superimposes fleeting insights into the inner workings of the building spaces of the private and the public, of intimacy and spectacle. In KABATAS, the viewer’s gaze is directed by the movement of the wind occasionally lifting a plastic veil of an Istanbul building. Shot in San Francisco, FILLMORE is a continuation of Yalda Afsah’s close observations of urban spaces. ATLANTEN, shot in Berlin, shows two parts of a viaduct breaching out of a corner building otherwise ...
Beckerbillett
1992 | 18 min | Documentary
Robert Bramkamp's unique hybrid of documentary, essay and fiction portrays the Hamburg ticket manufacturer BECKERBILLETT. The company not only manufactures tickets, it also creates a secret currency - each ticket stub promises an event and an experience. In his short film BECKERBILLETT, filmmaker Robert Bramkamp calls attention to a hidden and yet essential process in the cultural economy – how do spectators gain entrance to the places where entertainment and distraction take place? A new and ...
L' "il y a" du rapport sexuel
2023 | 95 min | Documentary
Embarking on an audacious exploration of intimacy and identity, Jos Diegel’s documentary delves into the enigmatic realm of sexual relationships through an innovative blend of performance art and philosophical inquiry. Over six transformative days in San Francisco, two strangers, under the gaze of two cameras, engage in an intimate scenario seeking to unravel the essence of sexual rapport, inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy's provocative text "L'Il Y A Du Rapport Sexuel". This daring experiment challenges ...
The Notes of Anna Azzori / A Mirror that Travels through Time
2020 | 72 min | Documentary
This essay film, based on a prior Berlinale film 'Anna' from 1975, addresses the place of women in a world that was full of discrimination back in the 70s and remains so today. From 1972 to 1975, Italian underground directors Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, accompanied a pregnant, drug-addicted runaway for their film "Anna". They offered her help and in return made her the main character of their film project, which oscillates between documentation and (re)staging, between empathy, distanced ...
GDR Experimental: Metamorphosis 1
1978 | 6 min | Icons & Media Art
In 1976, Lutz Dammbeck and five Leipzig artists conceived the interdisciplinary exhibition “Tangente I”, which was intended to serve as a platform for experimental art forms in the GDR. The focus was on collaborative works combining various media such as painting, film and installation. However, before the exhibition could be realized, it was banned by the authorities in 1977 – a typical fate for avant-garde art in the GDR that operated outside the state-regulated framework. Dammbeck did not let ...
Not Yet Over
2016 | 63 min | Independent
The film follows various women who strive for medical and social reproductive freedoms and premiered at the International Queer Film Festival Hamburg. While Germany wrestles with abortion laws from the Nazi era, migrant women in this country often struggle with the law and the health care system for their own sexual self-determination. The filmmakers create a condensed setting with four women. One wants a child through artificial insemination, the other wants an abortion, the third wants to become ...
FtWTF - Female to What The ...
2015 | 92 min | Documentary
After the transition is before the transition. This documentary begins where transbiographies often end. It tells the story of six young people who experience their trans identities in very different ways. Katharina Lampert and Cordula Thym conduct profound and disarmingly honest interviews full of humor about the tightrope walk and the fault lines where gender and identity emerge. The film's examination of masculinity in the queer scene is also a key theme. "The film creates space for non-binary ...
The Sleeper
2018 | 17 min | Shorts
This documentary portrays the biographies of two women who slowly disappear behind the role of housewife until they snap and become aggressors. Two newspaper articles, ten years apart, two different women, the same wording. Up to the moment of the appearance in these newspapers, both women were invisible as individuals, concealed by their roles as wives and homemakers. It was only through acts of violence that, for a brief moment, did they claim visibility. THE SLEEPER revolves around the time ...
The Statics - Engineering Memory Bridges (Die Statik der Eselsbrücken)
1990 | 20 min | Icons & Media Art
The short film by director Michael Brynntrup is "a superb biography - a pseudo-scientific collection of curiosities with puns turning artistic somersaults." (Abendzeitung, Nuremberg) Relics and tests from an inquiry into prototypes. Formal proof won through pregnant experiments on one's own body.